The complex contextualization of the work of James Lee Byars (1932–1997) in contemporary artistic practices was determined by its timelessness in both form and concept. Considered by Kevin Power as one of the key artists of the second half of the twentieth century alongside figures such as Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol, his legacy seems to have declined probably because of the discomfort caused...
Culture, Context, and Community in Contemporary Psychedelic Research Brian D. Earp (bio) and David B. Yaden (bio) Psychedelics require cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study, and we were happy to see a contribution from the field of medical anthropology. Such a study holds the promise of characterizing the ways in which psychedelics are situated in contemporary societies, both within and...
the gourds from attributed to the Late Intermediate Period (1000-1430 ad). The analysis is carried out from a mate-rialistic archaeosemiotic approach, relating Peircean semiotics to categories of the concrete society. A division is identified between the uses of the gourds and forms of sociability in daily-domestic and magical-religious ritual life, and the gourds are conceived as iconographic...
Este artículo explora el rol del chamán y la ayahuasca en Las tres mitades de Ino Moxo y otros brujos de la Amazonía de César Calvo Soriano como herramientas para pensar y escribir sobre la Amazonía desde otros paradigmas culturales. En una lectura a la cosmovisión y epistemologías indígenas amazónicas desde planteamientos del perspectivismo amerindio, este análisis explora cómo la novela...
Sanz-Biset & Cañigueral, 2011), son aún escasas las publicaciones al respecto.El dispositivo de la dieta está compuesto por una serie de estrictas normas, que implican el aislamiento, pautas rigurosas de alimentación y cuidados de la actividad sexual.No se puede tomar alcohol ni tener relaciones sexuales (incluida la masturbación), además de numerosas restricciones alimenticias entre las que se...
Synchronization to music is a basic ability for humans and the key component of synchronization is to entrain a particular rhythm. EEG studies show that when we synchronize with a rhythm, our brain waves also synchronize. From this view, trance can be a state of consciousness that is a result of rhythmic entrainment of brain waves. It is known that Shamans perform a ceremony with drums and...
The tree of life or cosmic tree is a recognized archetype whose attributes emphasize immortality, healing, knowledge and fertility. In the case of Iran, it goes beyond the limits of mythology until it reaches a shamanic, initiatory and ritual stage, embedded in the context of Avestic and Indo-Iranian
While debates have raged over the relationship between trance and rock art, unambiguous evidence of the consumption of hallucinogens has not been reported from any rock art site in the world. A painting possibly representing the flowers of Datura on the ceiling of a Californian rock art site called Pinwheel Cave was discovered alongside fibrous quids in the same ceiling. Even though Native...
Esse artigo é um exercício de aplicação do conceito de cosmopolítica à produção da arte amazônica, especialmente a do artista peruano Pablo Amaringo, considerando aqui, como as culturas amazônicas performam com o mundo, já que o xamanismo tem seus próprios paradigmas energéticos, cosmológicos e ecológicos. O propósito principal é ressaltar a necessidade de se conhecer a diversidade de...
Ayahuasca is a beverage consumed at shamanic ceremonies and currently has gained popularity on recreational scenarios. It contains beta-carboline alkaloids and N,N-dimethyltryptamine, which possesses hallucinogenic effects. Only a few studies have elicited the psychoactive effects and the dose of such compounds on neurological dopaminergic cells or animals. In this work, we aimed to study the...